The only time I got to use my trailer was for a week, but I unhitched, but the day before we left, I hooked back up to it, re-leveled it and the departing morning, I lifted the jacks and away we went. If I were to go over night, nah, I'd leave it hitched up. But the "emergency" thing did make a good point....what if.....
2007 Nissan Titan Off-Road w/ leveling kit---THIS THING IS A PIECE OF JUNK
2008 Jayco Jayflight 28BHS
Me, wife, one little girl and one little boy
all along for the ride.
Depends if the TT & TV are level--why "re-level" it if they're level hooked up?
Instead of stabilizers...the Bal Tire Chocks between the tandem tires will normally stop the TT from "rockin" please no "come a knockin" jokes...admin will delete it...I've seen 'em do it before!.
Tim & Sue
Gerry (GSD) & Jammer (Sheltie)
2005 F150 4x4 Lariat 5.4L 3.73 Please buy a Hybrid...I need your gas for my 37 gallon tank!
2000 Nash 19B...comfortably pimped with a real Queen Size Bed Red Wine anyone?
I've not overnighted where I was leaving and just stopped off for the night anywhere, but i've left mine in my yard when getting home from a trip. That way, I could rest that night and just get everything unloaded the next day.
The only problem i've found is if I leave it hitched without the jack down on the ground to take a little weight off the truck is my spring bars are being used a little more than they need to, and i've notices a little bit of a bow starting in them. It's not much, no more than a couple degrees, but, I think over time and doing it every time, I might have my spring bars bent more than they need to. Oh, I also have weight in the back of my truck of stuff like water jugs, firewood, etc., so it also adds that weight to my bars.
But, the last time I cranked down my jack to take off the weight, I found out that the factory had put a substandard jack on the tongue. It was only rated for 1000 pounds, and my tongue weight is 900 pounds not counting what was in the truck bed pushing down on it. My jack leg bent, as it wasn't quite sitting level, and the weight against it was trying to roll it sideways a little. So, I lost my crank down tongue jack. I don't have any idea why they put a 1000 jack on a 900 pound tongue weight TT. It's ruined and now gonna cost me a new tongue jack.
Watch out if you do jack it down that you don't put too much pressure on the jack itself, and that it isn't angled in any way to maybe cause the tongue to wiggle too much. The tube could bend, as mine did, and you just lost a tongue jack.
But, don't just leave the spring bars pulled tight, either. That may over time weaken them some.
I'd release the spring bars, drop the tongue jack and lift some pressure off the tv, and maybe sit a couple of those little jack stands under the tongue or front frame area to keep too much excess wiggle out of it, and to keep from possibly losing your tongue jack, too.
JMHO and experience.
Tim
If I don't meet your expectations
Maybe you should lower your standards.
It depends on where I am staying. If I am only stopping at a rest area or Wally World, I stay hooked up. If I am actually in a campground, even for only one night, I will unhook.
2004 Ford Excursion
2008 Keystone Passport 28RL
Ray, Kay, and Tessa. Tessa is a 5 year old American Cocker. She thinks that she is the co-driver.
LewMichele&Paws wrote: I usually stay hitched after leveling and pulling the umbilical cord. Once or twice I have unhitched to drive to a restaurant.
Many connector cords do not disconnect the TT battery charging circuit when the TV ignition switch is off. If you are using 12 volt power or your TT battery is not too good, you run the risk of your TV not starting the next day if you don't pull the "umbilical cord". I don't always unhook but do disconnect the plug just in case.
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